Party snack holder

Now this started as my worse ever attempt on doing something. I tried to make a 3 bins serving tray (deeper than what I usually make). one bin was destroyed during the drilling stage, the other bin was destroyed in the routing stage. So I was left with one bin and the few cm that i leave on the side. looked really bad. it also had the marks from the drill (as I didn’t take the brad point into the depth calculation).

ok, so I added a thumb shaped groove on the side, slapped a finish on it and left it to dry in the house. EVERYONE that saw it picked it up, smiled and said its very cute. go figure….

will try to make some more of prettier wood.

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

scrappy I am not complaining about the mistakes. I make heaps of them. And although people might think otherwise I am usually not posting them :-). I posted this one just for the idea of the thumb groove. it is actually very comfortable for carrying around, less stress on the thumb.

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

Neat little piece. It goes to show that you never know 100% what you are going to end up with when you work with wood. You should make a stack of them like a set of coasters and put them next to the chips and dip at the next party.

I actually just traced my thumb and free handed with a bowl bit. took 10 secs… becuase its a shallow groove its easy to control.you don’t have to use the drill, but routing is messy… heaps of chips flying around, dust, noise….the forstner is much faster and quieter, and also saves the load on the pretty expensive bowl bit.

I warned you this is too cute! my wife also started talking about a set.

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...